62 Horde (2/2)
”GRAAAAAAHHHH!”
The Skeleton King pounded its rusty armor using its greatsword before hitting me. Of course, I blocked it with a shield. The attack is very strong and I barely managed to block it but thanks to my expertise in handling this boss allowed me to reduce the strength of the attack.
After the greatsword attack, I gripped the spear and poke the Skeleton King's armor. If the Versatile Weapon has the ability to reduce some defense of the monster, then I can at least reduce this mini-boss' defense.
-Inflicted 3,250 damage. Defense was reduced by 5% for 30 seconds.
The 30% chance activated! When the debuff activated, I quickly changed the shield and spear into a hammer and quickly bash the Mini-Boss with it.
BANG!
-Inflicted 10,000 damage! CRITICAL! Defense was reduced by 5% for 30 seconds.
Another stack which means the defense of the Mini-Boss has reduced to 10%. And based from the damage inflicted aside from the critical hit, I am sure the defense penetration activated, allowing me to inflict more damage.
The HP of the Mini-Boss will not last at this rate if the skills of the Versatile Weapon continue to activate. But the mobs are starting to gather now. To avoid being ganged up, I retreated from the boss and let the mobs follow me away from the boss. The Mini-Boss has slow movement and will only attack whenever you are in his 2-meter range. If he is far from you, he won't bother to follow you.
I kite around the mobs to make sure they won't be gathering around the Mini-Boss. It was successful and the mobs followed me and ready to clobber me. I didn't bother hitting them since I already hit them earlier too much and if I hit them again, they will die, causing a new spawn of enemies multiplied by two and I don't want that many hindrances to appear.
Dodging every mob and enduring their attacks that reduce my HP bar slowly, I drink potions whenever I get low in health before I continue. After a few seconds, I managed to shake off the mobs. Back to the boss again but this time, I used another strategy.
Instead of shield block, I decided to rush using the hammer instead of changing it to shield. Why? Because the enemies in Alternate World are somewhat sentient and can remember strategies did to them. If you keep repeating the same pattern, twice, the enemy will remember this and will immediately use a new way to counter your strategy, destroying it on the process.
While heading to the 2-meter distance of the Mini-Boss, I activated [Berserk] immediately, raising my attack power tremendously but reducing my defense too much now that the Versatile Weapon has now the ability to enhance the power of the Berserk Status and also reduce your defense further.
”EAT THIS!”
Swinging the hammer with all my strength on the Skeleton King's skull, I expected the defense to fall further but I didn't expect to hear a sound when the hammer struck the skull.
CRACK!
I paused and saw the Skeleton King crumble to dust after that and the interface showed me the notification.
-Got 25,000 EXP(Additional 25,000 EXP for Instant Kill)(Additional 5,000 EXP for killing a Mini-Boss)(Title Effects activated, 55,000 EXP gained)
-Got 15 Paladin AP
-Got 30 Berserker AP
[Congratulations! You were awarded the title: Skullshatterer!]
[Skullshatterer]
Type: Unique Title
How to acquire: Inflict 500,000 exact damage to the Skeleton King while hitting the weakness which is the head.
Effect: Basic attacks and skills has 2% chance to inflict stun that would last for 5 seconds. The effect cannot be stacked. The effect continues even if not equipped.
Note: You smash heads like melons easily, now, are you willing to smash eggs too?
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As for the stats of Manato, I noticed that many of you complain about showing his stats panel frequently so I decided to remove it for now. I will reveal it from time to time to show his progress but I won't be bothering to show it all the time because you are reading a story, not a statistical novel.